Cucumber Sandwiches
October 27, 2019
Cucumber sandwiches were identified as one of the best foods to eat to stave off dehydration. Cucumbers have high water content and natural cooling properties.
A traditional cucumber sandwich is just bread and butter with cucumbers, but I like to add a little bit of mayonnaise to make the butter easier to spread, and a little dill and white pepper which I finds compliments the flavor of the cucumber nicely.
I cut off the crusts to make the sandwiches more homogenous in texture, but you can leave them on if you like. If you do cut the crusts off like me, I recommend saving the crusts to make a (bread pudding)[../bread-pudding] or breadsticks.
Ingredients
- 1 cucumber
- 10 slices white bread
- 3 tablespoons butter, softened at room temperature
- 3 tablespoons mayonnaise
- 1 tablespoon fresh dill
- to taste salt
- white pepper
Tools I Used
Instructions
- Combine the softened butter, mayonnaise, and dill in a bowl and mix well to combine into a spread.
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- Peel the cucumber.
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- Use a mandolin slicer, a wide grater, or a cheese slicer to slice the cucumber into thin cross-sections.
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- Place the cucumber slices between two paper towels and salt to quickly pickle and to remove excess moisture.
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- Lay two slices of bread on a cutting board and spread a generous amount of the dill butter mixture onto each side.
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- Lay the cucumbers in an overlapping pattern on one side of the bread. Season with some white pepper.
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- Place the two pieces of bread together and use a bread knife to cut off the crusts.
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- Slice the sandwiches on the diagnal to form four triangles.
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- Arrange on a plate and serve immediately.
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Written by Will Chiong who lives and works in New York building useful things.